Medieval Medicine

“When we try to act like a pregnancy doesn’t involve human life, we wind up drawing stupid semantic lines in the sand: first trimester abortion vs. second trimester vs. late term, dancing around the issue trying to decide if there’s a single magic moment when a fetus becomes a person.”

If you told a medieval dungeon torturer about how abortion works, he’d probably start taking notes.

The fact we can talk about abortion as if it is anything but inhumane is astounding.

Some animal fetuses, including many protected eggs, have more rights than human fetuses.

The torturer asks “And then you do what…?”(…)“I’m sorry, Your Majesty, but I can’t do that to a woman…!”